So I saw they now have role selection in the game for unranked/ranked draft. I decided to start playing the game again. I picked my two roles an was ready to play. I got a match an quickly realize I am not locked into either one of the roles I selected. It is just showing people what I like to play. Why would it not just lock people into one of the roles they chose? The way the system works right now is the equivalent to just calling your role in chat.
I believe it should be changed to lock people in the roles they picked. Also when it comes to the support role in the game I think they should focus on changing the heroes in the role to something else then removing the support role all together. You really don’t need more than 5 roles. There are only 5 players on a team not 6. When it comes to queue times I am sure people would rather have a longer queue time than have a bad comp/game. I also believe people would start playing other roles with a system like this in place. As of right now I honestly think 70%-80% of the player base just plays damage heroes. My most played role is healer an its not my favorite one to play I like playing the bruiser type heroes the most but I never can play them because you have to have a healer in this game. So I let people pick what they want just so they don’t throw the game because they didn’t get what they wanted. I am sure other people play like this also. Having a system where the roles we pick get locked in would let other players finally play something that they truly enjoy playing. I picked Bruiser and Healer an the queue should lock in one of the roles. Bruiser should be looked for first an if it can’t find a open spot for one in say a 5 min time window then give me healer.